The Louisiana Board of Ethics is telling an Acadiana hospital one of its top executives cannot serve as both an administrator and moonlight as a bill collector for the hospital.
The case centers around F. Peter Savoy, director of Acadia-St. Landry Hospital. The hospital requested an opinion on whether Savoy, who is an attorney, could be hired to operate the hospital’s collection services through his private law firm. The board said no, but did leave open the option of bill collector being added to his Savoy’s job description and his salary increasing accordingly. On whether Savoy could be paid on a contingency fee basis, the board punted, directing the hospital to seek an opinion from the attorney general’s office.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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